अश्रू पवित्र हैं, गंगाजल हैं !

कभी प्रेम की हाला हैं
कभी क्रोध की ज्वाला हैं !

कभी मिलन की आस हैं
कभी जुदाई का एहसास हैं !

कभी पीड़ा के धतूरे हैं
कभी सुखों के वो पल अधूरे हैं !

कभी ममता के यह प्रतीक हैं
कभी यादों के अतीत हैं !

करुणा की सरिता हैं !
अश्रू पवित्र हैं, गंगाजल  हैं !

नयन सपनो के घरोंदे  सजाते हैं
दिल फूलो के उपवन बसाते हैं !
कल्पनाओ के पंछी डेरा डालते हैं
जीवन का राग सुनाते हैं !

सपने टूटते हैं ,
आँखों में कांच चुभते हैं !
पतझड़ के मौसम में
बाघ भी उजड़ते हैं !

अश्रू में घूल कर यह बह जाते हैं
घावो को  दवा कर जाते हैं !
बसंत का बिगुल बजा जाते हैं
फिर से सब पावन कर जाते हैं !

जीवन मात्र साँसों का व्यापार नहीं
यह भावनायो का भी ज्वार हैं !

जीवन बहूत सरल हैं, सजल हैं
क्योकि अश्रू पवित्र हैं , गंगाजल हैं !

-प्रतीक

10 years down the line...

I am back and after a long time. :)

It is not that I have stopped wasting my time thinking about really useless things but I am really a very lazy person at penning down things...ohh sorry typing down things....

So some thoughts on "5-10 years down the line"...very common question.....yes a very common HR question. Until my final year of engineering , I don't remember a single instance when I have ever spent time thinking of this , but afterwards the company HRs made me do so.

Speaking frankly I never had a sincere thoughts on this and most of the time I used to bluff , giving some fancy answers which will work to my advantage.But now a days this question is haunting me more often because now I actually wanted a answer to this. It is one of the most important item of a circle of questions revolving around my stationary mind and hence crossing it after every regular interval.The other being should I go for a MBA or GRE or job? and what kind of girl will get married to? etc etc.

In my earlier blog I wrote life has a real part and an imaginary part. So, today I just closed my eyes and loosened my imagination to take dive into the sea of time and search that pearl , which will answer what should my real part be like few years down the line.

Our lives has two aspects - Personal and Professional.

While its love and relationships that completes and fulfills our personal desires and commitments ,it is knowledge ,integrity and respect when it comes professionalism.

Lets talk about the personal aspect first .10 years down the line and there I want to see myself with my parents,wife,kids and friends. I want to be a good son , a loveable husband , a responsible father and a faithful friend.I want to love and be loved .As Michael Jackson has rightly said "If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with." Love begets peace and satisfaction and happiness.

Now lets come to the professional aspect of ones life. This part used to cover the majority of my stupid answers earlier and mindlessly I used to answer that I want to be a manager ,I want to be this , I want to be that and blah blah.But only after spending two years of my career in this industry ,have I realised that nothing is more important than knowledge,integrity and respect .It would be apt to quote a line from 3 Idiots here "Run after excellence and success will run after you". Learning should always be a major part of ones career and it reminds me one of Steve jobs famous commencement speech where he asks the outgoing Stanford grads always to "Stay foolish,Stay hungry". Learning , its application , making mistakes is what builds Knowledge .Integrity is a second big thing. It is an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting.That says it all, A morality , honesty and sincerity towards your work .And the last is respect. I put it at the last because your learning, knowledge and integrity is what generates respect for you and this things worth a lot more than a managers cabin :). This things make you priceless.Cabin will come anyways :).

It is 2 'o' clock at night and I am signing off now. Not a wonder that you get such thoughts only at night . Its so calm and quite as if everything around you is either sleeping or into some deep thoughts. :)

Getting started

So,here is my blog. Phew!!!!
Writing this word because rare are the occasions when such wierd things happen as you want to go ahead with something and still there is something which stops you for a long.
Before putting it in there at web , I thought a lot about as to what my first blog will be all about and I guess thats were I was wrong.Sometimes we tend to put in a lot of thoughts on things which deserves it lest . isnt it?

Why I started blogging ? Frankly the reasons have always changed and so as of know I have decided to keep my blogs as the collection of random thoughts , imagination and events.

But why these three?

Thoughts , I think is one of the good things which happens to all of us because it comes from within , we question something and seek answers from within.

Imagination is another such thing which gives us a pseudo-happiness. I write it pseudo because everything about it is false. For instance today I saw a movie "Braveheart" and its about a great warrior of Scotland. While watching the movie you can feel that rush of blood within your veins and your heart pumping and its like you want to be there and want to fight for the cause . You start feeling like a gladiator fighting for a country, people and they shouting your name , the echo of which can be easily heard and blah blah and suddenly boom , and there you are a software engineer comfortably poised in your bedroom with a little back ache battling not with swords but with skills to write a decent code for service data sources :) .

Everyones life after all has a real and a imaginary part.While most of the times we try to be real and practical , its good sometimes we put that "imaginary" thing over the real. For a moment or so it justs put us into a completely different world and I enjoy it.

And events. Well I will always love to share the good and the bad that happens to me . I like it because I completely agrees that happiness doubles and sorrows halfed when you share it.Life is afterall nothing but a collection of events that touches our heart.

May be some years down the line when I will be more practical and intelligent and mature , I will come back to this blog and the blogs below and see what I have written and then I will be like rolling on the floor laughing and saying to myself
"Ah , so wierd . What a stupid loser I used to be :) "